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After visitation, what’s next for Stika and Knoxville? And how long could it take?

After a pair of Virginia bishops made an apostolic visitation to the troubled Diocese of Knoxville, what happens next?

JD Flynn
Dec 07, 2022
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After visitation, what’s next for Stika and Knoxville? And how long could it take?

Twenty months after priests in East Tennessee first sounded an alarm regarding their bishop’s leadership, they got what they asked for: A pair of Virginia bishops traveled last week down to the Smoky Mountains for an apostolic visitation with the clergy of the Diocese of Knoxville.

The Vatican-ordered inspection came after earlier enquiries by Archbishop…

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